MAIL ITEMS.

Evening Star, Issue 4230, 16 September 1876, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

TURKISH ATROCITIES. The 'Daily News' correspondent writes that while some estimate the loss of innocent life at 25,000 men, women, and children, others believe it does not rise above the figure of 12,000. It is not only in the villages which defended themselves against the plunderous attacks of the Bashi-Bawraks that no distinction was made of guilt, sex, or age; in the firfct weeks of the revolts all Bulgarians found (on the highways in the casas of Philippopolis and Tartar-Bazardjik were mercilessly massacred. As regards the loss of property, it is simply incalculable. Countless <we the families which have been plundered of everything they possessed. The system followed by the Basla-BsjßOuki has been this, Ab soon as they pero^ired,

OTg <O*oqg BV&OOUItySnM JO ttfts 4MW tfl& |t tymji J ptrs *p9i9p,au.]<ot vssnoij *p99owroo -qjuL man eq* <9|w eq* bsA .•» $| pswßt OTii Jprarep ©q; jj"'>. "»^xw^q«qtn Aoq» <boß«sra uvw&rng « 4tt9»inßui eq| of A&. ipsqf no village was attacked, taken By assault; the . inhabitants houses pillaged-tod fenrni Some airar large and email vdJ&geß were libis way; about ftnalies Seaileft housdesp r and penniless to beg in the towns, Jtt feed upon grass in the mountains, or to starve. While life and property suffered in this way, honor fared no better. Many are the young women who have been carried off from the destroyed c for a few days only, in others, perhaps, for ~ ever—to form part of their captors harems. A good many children have been also carried ofiyto be Converted to MahnmmftflMiißifij kept as drudges. All these artEesT*** massacres and outrages were eon* mitted in many eases under the very eyes of the civil and military authorities, There is : this thing besides to be noticed in connection with them, that no plea of reprisals can be. put forward in their favor. It is true > that at Avratalan .and Yem-Cun some sixty Turks were murdered by the insurgents; hut no case has been proved ofa Tar Josh , woman or child having been put to deathby the Bulgarians, at least in the district of Phffippopolis; whfle as regards tiie general conduct of the insurgents towards Europeans, and eveu Turks who submitted to •-' give up their arms to them, the European '/ officials of Baron Hirsch's ttablissement - * forestier at Bellovia speak of the Bulgarian •'; disturbers of order in terms which contrast very singly with the language of the raiW wayofficialßWith respect to the behaviour of"' *' theßashi-Baaoulcs. . . . Itisnowposi. , tiyely ascertained that both political and religious authorities have been guilty of the jmost inconsiderate appeals to the worst passions..of the Turkish populace,- The highest 'officials in Philippopolis have been heard to declare that all Christians 1 were revolutionaries, and ought as such to be hunted down andmassacred, as the Padishah :■ * did not want any more to have Ghiaours for t - subjects. There is also a stray current of w»om»preaohingto all those who engaged ■"-■■ in the holy war against the Ghiaours/ that • every piece of Christian property pilfered was*.legitimate .acquisition for a feithfuV , , 7 U £sP JMsUbd one priest # ? and thirty-three Christians was certain of a place in Paradise. I give this report on the authonty of the Vice-Consul m Philippopolis. Ab regards the other assertions in the concluding paragraph, incredible as they appear; «i they are all facts, and I ai* eve a prStted ' to give the names of the officials who Tiave r> been guilty of such enormous excesses of" ' language. According to a commnnication from Col. ? > Protwh to Alexinatethe Turks have sent . Bashi-Bazouks and Tcherchesola to places where no operations are being carried on ,-, with instructions to burn and destroy. Thev ' have set fire to the village of loan, witt the church and the school, and iu that part ofthe country between Alexinatz and Wisch, where there are neither Servians nor Turks! these irregulars have destroyed by the same v means the village of Patraire without any " reason. J

A Servian official telegram confirms from authentic sources the announcement that the Juries at Norivarosch dragged Christian women to the ramparts to expose .them to the Servian projecticles, and a telegram to ; the Russian Agency, dated St. Petersburg, *L 19 ' S 7 * *V Contrar y to the assertions of Mr Disraeli, we affirm that at Philinpopolis more than 1,800 Christians therl Mty of whom are priests, are detained by the Turks, and that the disorders andfcarbaritiea ■ are continuing." —»*«■ In the House of Commons on July 17, Mr ' Br S« *° the "ported atrocities,' said that in hia latest despatch Sir Henry Elliot stated that, though there had unquestionably been excesses, as were inevitable on both.sides, yet the details referred to 'com- '. mg from Russian and Bulgarian sources, were so monstrously exaggerated as to deprive them of any claim to attention. The'• Greek Minister had also informed our Ambassador that his agents had heard of none of these details, and it was remarkable that there had been nothing like a religion war *'"' • but according to Sir Henry Elliott latest r£ port nothing was more striking than tine : unanimous feeling of the ChrisSahs agaiast the aggression on Turkey. A bannel was RE'S? Volunteers onwlucfcthe Crescent and the Cross would appear side by Oh the Sunday previous to the race for Hoseberry's horse Controversy was entered, taking foi his text «< Controversy? httle imagining the use to which a portion of his congregation, struck by the appropriateness of flie text, would apply it. Tie * Bishpp is unsparing in hi* attaoks npqn racing and rawng men ; hence the triteness ot ti|e text on. the occasion, referred to. • 1 ?^ 8 /. ?* 8"!* activity in England in the ■ cncketfield. Jaya play, Gloucestershire beat Burrey,by v; ten wickets. The three Graces wereintoJ winning team, but more than half the runs were secured by Gilbert and Townsend, 86 and 88-respectively in the two innings.. Hampshire beat Kent by 236 runsTlZa contest between Oxford University and the Gentlemen of England, the former gained a decisive victory by ten wickets. In a county match between Middlesex and STirrey,lastini - Wickets; Mr Ottaway, in the Middlesex team, obtained 152 runs. Notts, in a single lamngs, defeated a Marylebone scratch tefm after two innings by 52 runs. Brighton has been made the scene of a Sussex and Gloucestershire, resulting in a victory for the latter by 131 runs. Mr W G. Grace contributed largely to this .result.* ' with a score of 104 in the second limine?. * Derbyshire, in t a single innings, has . JL*., quished the M.C.C~aler adSSle iSunS Cambridge University has won a three days' s ' match with Surrey by 148 runs. An extrMrdinary divorce ease has just * a }°& hearin « » Vtifoh namely, Mr Spread Morgan Majnst Lady Catherine Lonisa Morgan, daughters of the Earl of Mountcashel. Cruelty is aUeged as wall as adultery. Sheis accused of having beaten her husband with ? 8 ***kers, thrown water into his bed, selling his clothes, flinging his shirts out of the windows, cuttingfig boots .mpieoes, spitting upon him, 1 announoinff to Wm that he was a cuckold, pointing a m at him, and habitually using coars^lamniaS :j to mm The respondent - charged against her. The jury, afteran absence ofjess than five, minutes, returned with a verdict for Lady MoJgaa on all the issues. The result wa/receivS " AcertHtmaitOTlort, whom, notkn. - «go one of the most duhinc of ~.«t„ *:T» m which Napier of Magdala in the pedatforii and now leads the 53 fW C^mehtoGhapel^Kensm^ o^^,., , S«? ft ? >"£& * BBißted *or ttSfiS

71m 'Athenaram aanonncai Mu» Thompson's coaverabn to Catholicism, and adds that ah* will now paint, not battle-pieces, bat sacred pictures. A gentleman tolerably well known in London sporting circles has made one of the luckiest hits on record. He received from a boookmaker odds of 800 to 1 in sovereigns against his naming the three winners of the three races—the Two Thousand, the City and Suburban, and the Derby. The gentleman named Petrarch, Thunderer, and the Mineral Colt, and thus pulled off what is termed in sporting language, the "triple jevent." The LB6O was paid punctually on settling day.